Wye Valley Surgery

Phone line information

our new cloud-based telephone system will be installation has been delayed until further notice

We want to thank you for your patience in the meantime.

Upcoming planned closure

We will be closed for protected learning time from 1pm onwards on the 24th April 2025, If you need medical assistance during this time please contact 111 or 999 in the case of an emergency

Clinics

NHS clinics and services - practice

We provide a full range of services under contract to NHS England

The range of clinics includes:

Health promotion

Health checks include

Healthy living

There is further information on improving your general health under

Screening

Disease prevention – screening

  • Cervical cytology: Support with cervical screening includes information and a helpline to help with having a smear. This also includes when and how you will be invited for cervical screening.
  • Child health surveillance with the support of our local health visiting team.

Smear Results

Smear test results take 6-8 weeks on average and are posted out to patients.

Practice services

Available practice clinics

Further information

General Information

Chronic disease clinics

Common long-term conditions include:

  • Asthma
  • COPD
  • Diabetes
  • Hypertension (high blood pressure)
  • Coronary heart disease
  • Heart failure
  • Stroke and TIAs
  • Epilepsy
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Chronic kidney disease
  • Hypothyroidism
    and more.

More information

There is more information under our practice section

This includes a link to more information about common long-term conditions for adults and children.

Sexual health

There is information on various aspects of sexual health including accessing various sexual health services under

Contraception

Contraception service: there is more information on contraception and the available options including on long-acting reversible contraception (LARCs) under

Coil / implant contraceptive devices at the surgery
Please see a GP first for contraceptive counselling, and then you will be able to book an appointment for the fitting of the coil/ implant contraceptive device.

Maternity services

Maternity medical services are provided with the support of our local maternity team. There is more information on pregnancy and local services under

  • Pregnancy – this includes how to self-refer to the local hospital

Enhanced services

We also provide some enhanced NHS services which include

  • Near patient testing
  • Physiotherapy
  • Steriod joint injections
  • Post Operative: suture/ staple removals
  • Zoladex/Decapeptyl injections
  • Depo injections
  • Leg ulcer clinic
  • Coil clinic

Other local clinics - external organisations

Plebotomy clinics
Phlebotomy is available to book via www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk/bloodtests

Baby Clinics

Information for baby clinics for well children with the Health Visitor are available via:

Find activities and organisations near you | Family information service | Buckinghamshire Council

Please call the Health Visitor to make an appointment. Their contact details can be found in contact details under the tab “community teams working with the practice”.

First Contact Physiotherapy

Our first contact physiotherapist Srimadhuri Venkatesh (Maddie), works Monday to Thursday at the surgery, and can help with a whole range of Musculoskeletal issues:

Inclusion Criteria

  • All soft tissue injuries, sprains, strains or sports injuries
  • Arthritis – any joint
  • Possible problems with muscles, ligaments, tendons or bone, eg tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, ankle sprains
  • Spinal pain including lower back pain, mid-back pain and neck pain
  • Spinal-related pain in arms or legs, including nerve symptoms, eg pins and needles or numbness
  • Changes to walking
  • Post-orthopaedic surgery
  • Review of pain medications, prescriptions, MSK fit notes
  • Cortisone injections – if deemed clinically necessary after triage by Maddie

Exclusion criteria

  • Acutely unwell
  • Children under 16
  • Women’s health, antenatal and postnatal problems
  • House-bound patients
  • Medication reviews
  • Neurological and respiratory conditions
  • Headaches
  • Acute mental health crises
  • Patients who have already been assessed and are currently being treated by a Doctor for an ongoing musculoskeletal issue

We offer both telephone and face to face appointments.

There are a number of clinics and services which are provided on our premises by external organisations

  • Oxford mental health Practitioner
  • Social Prescribing Link Worker
  • Midwife

In practice self-referrals

There may be some support in the practice you can access directly without needing to go through a doctor or nurse. Any “in practice self-referrals” can be found in the self-referral section under

NHS screening - national clinics

Many of the national screening programmes such as breast screening take place outside the practice, we fully support these national programmes and would encourage all our patients to take up these opportunities when you are invited.

There are links to easy reading support and helplines included below if you think you may have missed your screening opportunity.

As the NHS suggests
“Screening is a way of finding out if people have a higher chance of having a health problem, so that early treatment can be offered or information given to help them make informed decisions.”
“NHS screening.” The NHS website. Retrieved 19 July 2023.

Information and helplines for national screening

For information on screening see under

This includes

  • The national screening programme including breast screening, bowel screening, and much more.
  • Who to contact if you think you have missed your screening opportunity.
  • Easy reading and multi-language support.

Travel clinic - practice

Practice travel clinic

Information on practice travel clinic vaccinations can found under

General information

For general information on travel vaccinations, see under

Videos and podcasts

On the videos and podcasts page there are links to some relevant videos and podcasts covering various topics relating to our clinics and local services, including under wellbeing and disease prevention, health conditions, pregnancy and more.

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